John Chancer

Oliver Stone is a man with no past, interested only in observing politics and power. Everything changes when he and his friends witness a murder staged to look like suicide. They become involved in a dangerous plot that reaches the highest levels of Washington society.

Henry Pierce has a whole new life - new apartment, new telephone, new number. When he checks his machine, he discovers messages for a woman named Lilly, and she is in some kind of serious trouble. Pierce is inexorably drawn into Lilly's world, and it's unlike any world he's ever known - a night-time world of escort services, websites, sex and secret identities. As he tumbles through a hole, abandoning his orderly life in a frantic race to save the life of a woman he has never met, every step into her past takes him deeper into a web of inescapable intricacy.

Michael Kelly, ex-cop turned PI, is hired by his former partner to help solve a rape case that has been open for eight years - because his partner was paid to keep it that way. The next day his partner is murdered and Kelly is being framed as his killer. To get himself off the hook, Kelly must solve the case. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost. This is the central plotline running through this page-turning history beginning with the Japanese Operation I-Go and the American ambush of Admiral Yamamoto and continuing on to the Allied invasion of New Georgia, northwest of Guadalcanal in the middle of the Solomon Islands and the location of a major Japanese base. Determined not to repeat their mistakes at Guadalcanal, the Allies nonetheless faltered in their continuing efforts to roll back the Japanese land, air and naval forces.

Using first-hand accounts from both sides, this book vividly recreates all the terror and drama of the nighttime naval battles during this phase of the Solomons campaign and the ferocious firestorm many Marines faced as they disembarked from their landing craft. The reader is transported to the bridge to stand alongside Admiral Walden Ainsworth as he sails to stop another Japanese reinforcement convoy for New Georgia, and vividly feels the fear of an 18-year-old Marine as he fights for survival against a weakened but still determined enemy. Dark Waters, Starry Skies is an engrossing history which weaves together strategy and tactics with a blow-by-blow account of every battle at a vital point in the Pacific War that has not been analyzed in this level of detail before.

Detective Harry Bosch reopens the case of Marie Gesto, who disappeared after walking out of a supermarket. A man accused of two other killings appears ready to confess to the earlier murder too.  Book 12 of series.

Michael Kelly is hired by an ex-flame to tail her abusive husband. But the case turns out to be more than he bargained for. The trail leads him to an old house on Chicago's North Side were he finds a body, and what looks like the answer to one of Chicago's most enduring mysteries: who started the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and why. X rated, contains offensive language.

Lisa Trammel had been a client of Mickey's for 8 months and although so far he'd managed to stop the bank from taking her house, the strain and sense of injustice are beginning to take their toll. But now the bank's CEO has been found dead with a bullet in his brain, and Lisa is about to be indicted for murder.  Book 4 of series.

A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as an effective fighting force and forced to resort to suicide tactics.

In this new study, Pacific War expert Mark Stille examines the key aspects of this complex battle with new and insightful analysis and dismantles the myths surrounding the respective actions and overall performances of the two most important commanders in the battle, and the "lost victory" of the Japanese advance into Leyte Gulf that never happened.

Harry Bosch has left the LAPD taking with him a murder file about a production assistant killed four years before in a robbery. Now the LAPD thinks the money was used for the training of terrorists, and they plan to release the killer hoping he will lead them to the suspects. Harry comes into conflict with his former colleagues over this plan.  Book 9 of series.

On a stormy winter night, two strangers, Ashley Knox and Dr Ben Payne, meet at Salt Lake City airport. When the last outgoing flight is cancelled, Ben finds a charter plane and offers the spare seat to Ashley. But the plane crashes into the High Uintas Wilderness; Ben and Ashley are faced with a battle to survive.

Harry Bosch investigates the death of Terry McCaleb, a former FBI agent, and is forced to confront a villain known as The Poet.  Book 10 of series.

A man, once named Jimmy, now calls himself Snowman and may be the only survivor of an unnamed apocalypse. Now he lives in isolation and loneliness, trawling through the past - the disappearance of his mother and the arrival of his mysterious childhood companions Oryx and Crake.

FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attaché seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth floor window. Reilly’s investigation uncovers a deadly search for a mysterious device whose origins reach back to the darkest days of the Cold War and to Imperial Russia ...

Crime reporter Jack McEvoy, delving into the case of a 16-year-old drug dealer who has confessed to murder, soon realises that the confession is bogus. When his investigation leads him into the digital world of data collocation services, Jack sets off a digital tripwire and the killer - the Scarecrow - now knows he's coming.  Book 2 of series.

After alleged serial killer Edgar Roy is apprehended and locked away in a psychiatric unit, private investigators Sean King and Michelle Maxwell are called in by Roy's lawyer to look into the case. But their investigation is derailed before it begins. En route to their meeting with the lawyer, King and Maxwell discover his dead body.

Spark is built on the idea that coming from a perspective of 'getting' something is a severely self-limiting position. Instead, a career should be seen as an opportunity to give. Doing so, the authors argue, can lead to expansive possibilities.

At the same time, however, people should be averse to bloat, bureaucracy, and everything that comes with achieving a certain level of inert mass. So, how can these two positions be reconciled? This is why, unlike most business books, Spark doesn't use the authors' business backgrounds or personal stories as a launchpad for their views on best practices. It's not a step-by-step guide to building an empire, and it doesn't pretend to have all the answers to creating the world's best businesses. Instead, Spark aims to deliver an unhurried, thought-provoking experience about what drives individuals, teams and organizations to thrive.

Why do so many swear words involve topics like sex, bodily functions or the divine? Why do some children's names thrive while others fall out of favour? Why do we threaten and bribe and seduce in such elaborate, often comical ways? How can a choice of metaphor damn a politician or start a war? And why do we rarely say what we actually mean? Language, as Steven Pinker shows, is at the heart of our lives, and through the way we use it - whether to inform, persuade, entertain or manipulate - we can glimpse the very essence of what makes us human.

USS Princeton (CVL-23) started life as the light cruiser Tallahassee before being converted while still under construction into a light carrier as part of the plan to ramp up the strength of US naval air power. The vessel joined the Pacific Fleet in August 1943 and was immediately put to work as the United States was assembling new ships and crews for the bitter struggle to come. Princeton played a key role in conducting multiple strikes against the Japanese bastion at Rabaul, and then joined Task Force 58/38 - the Fast Carrier Task Force - for the Central Pacific campaign, culminating in the invasion of the Philippines, where the ship was lost.

David R. Leick skillfully uses first-hand accounts to examine the engagements, aircraft, tactics, command decisions and life on board during the Pacific campaign against Japan from early 1943 until Princeton's tragic demise in October 1944.